New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-01

norts of, fish from Halifax to the United States were
valued at 1891 O0s against for the correspond
Ing period last year The exports OF @ ne s m,s' for
the quarter just ended arc largest IN the nso! VI W
port 50"
NO DOUBT THAT THE EAGLE is LOST.
PROBABLY FOUNDED TO PIECES ON THE ROCKS OF
FUNK ISLAND.
ST. JouNs n. F. March 81 Especial. ALI hope OF the
missing sealing steamer Eagle has been abandoned ana
this vicinity is In deep mourning over the loss OF the Zoo
lives. The Eagle was Dundee-built vessel, equipped
specially the Newfoundland seal and northern whale
fisheries She had new boilers placed in her and was
thoroughly reed this spring at expense OF $4,000
She sailed from this port the morning Of March 10
company with the steamers Arctic, Aurora, Terranova
Wolf. Neptune. Esquimau1 Hector and Vanguard Next
day frigbful storm swept the coast That night 'no
Eagle and Aurora were in company in Bona Vista Bay
40 miles north Of St. Johns The are said to nave
been the most terrible experienced by the odes
sailors Forty miles of Bona Vista lies FuhK isan"'
which for miles surrounded by dangerous breakers
When last seen the Eagle was In the vicinity OF ths
island during hurricane of the night OF the ILL.,
II is believed that the vessel was driven
on these fatal rocks and pounded to match woou
within few minutes going to the bottom with her 2'o
men.
Funk Island is hinge rock rising out OF the sea about
to square miles In extent and by all odds the most
eros locality along the whole dreaded coast OF Now
fou udlaud Sealing steamers usually keep each other
com any and OF sight OF one another lot
than days at time. but the Eagle mas not uceh
seen or heard Of for iec weeks and as the Ice Is all IN
shore the inside the beadlands All the rest
of the feet are the seals The commanders OF the
steamers Hector an0 Vanguard. however, have sent
through the lighthouse keeper at Cabot Island the ntel
gcncc that they have passed quantity OF wreckage oil
steamer including spars forecastle, etc., also name
board the word EAGLE painted on It, thus leaving
no reasonable doubt of the doom Of the ship
Tremendous excitement prevails in this city AMI the
friends of board have given up hone OF the re-
turn of their bread winners The loss OF this steamer
with $50 lives will he terrible blow to st. Johns Cap
aiu Jacknan skipper OF the Eagle anu formerly one oi
the most successful commanders OF the sealing cct' mas
been particularly uuucky in the last two years The
year before returned home clean and his crow o
go men lost their whole seasons work Last year his
steamer the Resolute was crashed In the Ice and lost
with 10000 seals, bat her crew OF 3oo men escaped
Next he took command OF the Falcon AMI broke
her shaft
THE GOVERNMENTS LAND PURCHASE BILL.
MEASURE WHICH. lr IS HOPED WILL SETTLE
! TIE IRISH DIFFICULTY.
LONDON March In the YIouse OF Lords To- night Earl
Cadogan, Lord Privy Seal presented bill providing
for the purchase Of Irish holdings in other words for
the abolition OF the system OF dual ownership created BY
the act of 1881 IL proposed he said o adin lease
holders 10 the benefits Of the act OF 1881 lChccrs lhe
easehoders whose leases expired prior ~ 1851 number
ing OOO were admitted TO the benefits OF the act
Of 1881 the those whose leases expired
In that year 1t als) proposed that landlord must
ssue notice the form scheduled In the bill when be
an ciecmen writ from the court and that he be
required the tenant with tina, notice In the man
ner prescribed by the either by service or by post,
ing when the tenant receives this notice he shall
Jccome so csIetaker OF his holdings for the period
of tbs tnat the redemption shall run as from
| dale Fari(
| the measure.
| Continuing Earl Cadogan sail that the Government
found impossible 20 adopt the Land Commissions re
cn,nc natinn that pcroJ OF five years ioc the hIins
Of inlcal hc substituted for that OF fifteen years,
according &c the present law. The Government believed
the tine had arrived to FORMULATE further measure
dealing With tenants purchase OF holdings. and looked
| TO that mainly for settlement OF the qies'
| lions which unhappy agtated tie country. In
| that alone, they believed, woaid he found
the solution OF those grave question: lChe"rs
The proposed to deal with the question III
two parts first the hin dealing with qneion-
OF urgency and great difficulty arising from the lard act
OF 1881 This bill which II wa hoped would reduce the
| number OF evic,ions oncbaf would bo followed by
| bill relating to ihe purchase OF hollinGs The middle
nan DOW suffered great injustice from his inability 10
ob,au for land the same which he had 10 pay
because he allowed 10 80 TO the land court II
was now proposed 10 enable him 70 rccedc from lease
The bill also proposed to relieve tenants who were
insovent through fanlt OF uier own, hut through
misfortune. II said that there was no method Tor
the relief of insovent tenants short o! bankruptcy The
Government however, opned that nsols ent tenants were
divided into three classes The first class was composed
OF those who had become insolvcnt from Temporary
| causes and who, they secured reasonable
| period OF delay instead OF the short period
now glven might under certain conditions avoid bank
ruptcy the second class were tboSe VINO were lns"l
vent through fault OF their own and who perhaps hah
reasonable prospects OF being able 10 pay tnslr aon
ties. The Government desired to mitigate these hard
cases. =.
Lastly there we're the inprudent and exfrayagsnt t.
naut, toward whom II Impossible To elicit sympathy
from Parliament the Nation For these the Govern
proposed County Court the judge OF which. while
granting tue landlord Judgment. snail he empowered 10
stay for period 10 be decided Dy
Judge the tenant meanwhile not to be removed from
holding The Government would constitute te Nouy
Court Judge Judge III bankruptcy within the
area ordinary Jurisdiction In reference W those
tenants who are nnOlvent through faut OF their own.
the might order composition ljJH the ins0ivcnts
old dents. the debtor continuing TO Occupy h, holding
period as the judge might decde anu 70 pay
a fair te; tai nKed by the court
The principle here WAS lepieDcy To the innocent In
solvent, whose good faith and e1ac Tue court
sbould bc assured but eYtravagant and .e lnsoyents
would the ordinary laws. The rates OF land
lords received their rents whose lana had
not occupied owing 10 intinidation wouii DC re-
The bin provided for n OF things which the Gov
ernmeni hoped by legislation before long to remove
and was All instament ont IL no sense & 'd
lords In ireland and those connected with them 10 make
heavy sacrifices Tho measure strictly regarded thc
ghts property and through an earnest desire 70
a spiri OF ialTn Tness and justice
The bill passed It's reading, and the second reading
was liked for April II.
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